A New Species of Corticeus Piller & Mitterpacher from Turkey, with an Updated Key to Turkish Species Belonging to This Genus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Fabien Soldati; Nicklas Jansson; Mustafa Avci; Erol Atay; Mustafa Coskun; Tamer Kayis; Fatih Aytar

doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.1.012

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31 March 2019 A New Species of Corticeus Piller & Mitterpacher from Turkey, with an Updated Key to Turkish Species Belonging to This Genus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Fabien Soldati, Nicklas Jansson, Mustafa Avci, Erol Atay, Mustafa Coskun, Tamer Kayis, Fatih Aytar

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Annales Zoologici, 69(1):165-172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.1.012

Abstract

A new darkling beetle species, Corticeus turcicus F. Soldati, sp. nov., is described from six localities in Turkey. The only related species in Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin seems to be C. unicolor Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 from which it differs by the smaller body size, yellowish coloration, different with ratio between pronotum and elytra and aedeagal morphology. An updated identification key to the currently known Corticeus species of Turkey is proposed and all species are illustrated. The types of Corticeus fusciventris Reitter, 1884 and C. rufobasalis (Pic, 1917) were studied and a new synonymy is established: C. fasciatus (Fabricius, 1790) = C. rufobasalis (Pic, 1917), syn. nov.

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Fabien Soldati, Nicklas Jansson, Mustafa Avci, Erol Atay, Mustafa Coskun, Tamer Kayis, and Fatih Aytar "A New Species of Corticeus Piller & Mitterpacher from Turkey, with an Updated Key to Turkish Species Belonging to This Genus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)," Annales Zoologici 69(1), 165-172, (31 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.1.012

Received: 25 September 2018; Accepted: 14 February 2019; Published: 31 March 2019

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